A BOY has died while playing on his bike at a caravan park.

Emergency services were called to the Caravan Club, next to Rowntree Park, in Terry Avenue, York, after the four-year-old boy, who had been riding a pedal cycle, was hit by a car towing a caravan.

Police said the car was moving slowly in the caravan site when the accident occurred.

The young boy, whose family come from from West Yorkshire, was taken to York Hospital just before 7pm on Thursday, with serious injuries.

He died on Friday morning.

Police are not naming the boy until all family have been informed.

Formal identification is expected to take place on Monday, with an inquest also expected to be opened and adjourned next week.

Ken and Jacqueline Robson, from Newcastle, were on holiday at the campsite when the accident happened.

Mrs Robson said: "We were onsite and having our dinner. Suddenly a woman came running up asking people if they had a little boy on a bike.

"It wasn't until later on when we went to wash the dishes near the entrance to the site that we saw the ambulance and police.

"We didn't know how serious it was," she said. "It's awful, dreadful. It's unbelievable.

Another caravaner from Blackburn, who asked not to be named, said: "There was a young boy on his pushbike.

"He was cycling through a walkway and he collided with a caravan."

A spokeswoman for the site owners said: "The Caravan Club offers its most sincere and deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the little boy who was involved in a tragic accident on a club site on Thursday.

"This matter is in the hands of the police and we are therefore unable to make further comment at this time. Once again, our thoughts and sympathies are with the family."

She said this was the first incident of its type on the site, which has been open since 1972.